Second home tax: FF calls for one month's grace period

Global refugee crisis: Europe-wide strategy is needed

Melissa Fleming, head spokesperson for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, discusses the deaths of hundeds of people attempting to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa, and the worsening refugee crisis in Syria

Golan Heights: 43 Fijian peacekeepers captured by Islamist rebels

20th anniversary of IRA ceasefire

Tommie Gorman, Northern Editor, looks back at the events leading up to the first IRA ceasefire, which marked the beginning of the end of almost three decades of violence during which more than 3,000 people were killed

Home renovations: people are spending €6m per week

Limerick, City of Culture 2014, Part 3

Petula Martyn reports on a giant 85 year old grandmother who'll be stalking the streets of Limerick; Mike Fitzpatrick, Director of Limerick National City of Culture, says the time was right for a new image for the city

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